8th gen I5 overclocking?

[khawajali96]

so I've recently installed an 8th gen I5 and my base clock speed is 3.0 when idle and 3.89 when gaming. i was just wondering if the base clock which is advertised at 3.0GHz is what it should be running at whilst idle or if it should be lower (maybe overclocking itself as i have not changed any bios settings.

 

[velocityg4]

How did you OC? Did you just change the multiplier or fiddle with other settings? Typically the idle speed would be much lower.

 

[khawajali96]

How did you OC? Did you just change the multiplier or fiddle with other settings? Typically the idle speed would be much lower.

I didnt do anything after i installed the new processor it was doing that on its own, a friend of mine is having the same issue. also my idle cpu temp is like 35 degrees and while gaming at 3.89GHz it no more than 55.

 

[Supernova1138]

How did you OC? Did you just change the multiplier or fiddle with other settings? Typically the idle speed would be much lower.

I didnt do anything after i installed the new processor it was doing that on its own, a friend of mine is having the same issue.

That's TurboBoost in action. With current Intel CPUs, the base clock is rarely the clockspeed you actually get, with that base speed only being used if you are close to thermal throttling or have a board with weak VRMs restricting the amount of power a CPU can draw. So long as you have thermal and power headroom, you will get clockspeeds higher than the base clock, and 3.8-3.9GHz on all cores is pretty common for the i5 8400/8500.

 

[khawajali96]

How did you OC? Did you just change the multiplier or fiddle with other settings? Typically the idle speed would be much lower.

I didnt do anything after i installed the new processor it was doing that on its own, a friend of mine is having the same issue.

That's TurboBoost in action. With current Intel CPUs, the base clock is rarely the clockspeed you actually get, with that base speed only being used if you are close to thermal throttling or have a board with weak VRMs restricting the amount of power a CPU can draw. So long as you have thermal and power headroom, you will get clockspeeds higher than the base clock, and 3.8-3.9GHz on all cores is pretty common for the i5 8400/8500.

thanks for the quick response and I did this it was turboboosting for a while but wanted to confirm since my temperature was never an issue compared to regular overclocking which usually increases the temperature drastically.